Lycee El Horreya

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Lycee la Liberte is one of the ancient schools in Masr El-Gedida, Egypt. The school is founded by the French secular mission. It is called then Lycee Francais, like other Lycee Campuses that hold the same name such as, Lycee Alexandria, Lycee Port Said, Lycee Bab El-Louk.
In such School, the subject had been given only in the French language, which made the students be confined in manly French and some English students. They also include other European nationalities who migrated to Egypt, in addition to some Egyptians.
The school includes all the educational levels the kindergarten, primary, preparatory, and secondary school by the Egyptian Educational system. From the nationalization of the school in 1961 to 2006, the school had been teaching Mathematics in the French language including Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry, in addition to scientific subjects as Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.
However, the literary and historical subjects and other subjects had been taught in Arabic. In 2006, the English section was opened in which the new students can apply for the first primary, while the section was under foundation, to be continued year by year until it can embrace the rest of the educational levels.
Furthermore Arabic is an obligatory subject to be taught from KGs according to the curriculum of the Ministry of Education in Egypt. On the other hand, the French section provides the students effective learning of the French language since the first primary, in addition to, a partial dealing with the French language in KGs, as being a French School.
The French School Council puts the curriculum for all educational levels and the distributions. That's to achieve the foundations of language and conversation by the end of primary school, so that, the students be able to interpret, read and write in the French language, at an advanced level in different daily and scientific subjects. Then the student's level will be improved in the preparatory and first years in secondary school, in which the emphasis will be on complex dialogues and difficult words. The student will finish his first language learning by 3rd primary while starting to learn the English language as a second language according to the curriculum of the Ministry of Education.
In the 4th primary, the student has to study the French language according to the curriculum of the Ministry of Education, in addition to his first language, whether being French in the case of the French section, or English in the case of the English section. The students and parents often have arguments on the importance of French as a first language, especially when they have French as a first language. Such subject is continued to be taught till High School.
The building of the school is consists of separate classes for KGs, administrative buildings, and a large E-shaped building verticulary divided into three buildings, each of which contains an educational level or a group of classes as the lower half of letter E is a building-specific for primary school, while the upper half is for the preparatory and secondary school building.
The land of the school included buildings as well as separate football, basketball, and handball courts, in addition to a track for a horse ride and a nursery. There is also a wide area for shelters from raids and bombs during the Second World War. Besides, the main building contains a swimming pool in the middle of its roof. That pool is used for sports training and summer periods, as being a boarding school. The school, also, contains two libraries, an Arabic and French one, also a third library for the primary school provided to both languages.
Moreover, the boarding section was closed in the school after its nationalization. In the 1980s, a part of the school's land, which contained a track for a horse ride, has been turned into Yahya Rafeay School and El-Horreya Post Office, which has been named after the school. Many Politicians, Champions, Actors, and Athletics have been graduated from Lycée El-Horreya.

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